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Put your recyclables loose in your recycling bin*. Do not use garbage or blue recycling bags. If you use bags to hold your recyclables, empty all the materials into your bin loose and reuse/recycle your plastic bags.

*Please note the exception items listed below to make sure you are recycling properly.

Newspaper

Catalogues and magazines

*Remove plastic wrappings before recycling

Mixed paper

Shredded paper

*Place shredded paper in a transparent or see-through plastic bag and tie closed.

This item can’t be sorted by the machines at the recycling facility so it needs to be bagged and sorted by hand separately.

Telephone books

Boxboard and corrugated cardboard

Glass jars and bottles

Food cans and foil

Refundable beverage containers

Plastic containers with the recycling symbols 1-7

*No polystyrene foam

Plastic bags, plastic wrap and bubble wrap

*Bundle plastic bags, clean plastic wrap and bubble wrap into a single transparent or see-through bag and tie closed.

Transparent bags such as grocery bags or blue recycling bags no larger than 170 litres are acceptable to use for bagging your soft plastics.

Juice and soup boxes

(such as Tetra PaksTM)

Other recycling services

Waste & Recycling Services also offers additional recycling options for large commercial quantities of other recyclable materials. These materials must be set up as a separate recycling service from the mixed recycling items above to ensure proper collection and recycling of materials. Certain conditions must be met in order to set up service for the below materials. Please contact 311 for more information.

Scrap metal recycling

Fixtures and fittings

Sheeting

Automotive parts

Metal plumbing and racks

Galvanized metal, rebar or coat hangers

Unfinished wood recycling

Dimensional lumber

Wooden pallets

Other items made of raw and unprocessed wood

Plastic film recycling

Clear plastic film (polyethylene)

Film wrap

Shrink wrap

Stretch wrap

NOTE: To encourage recycling, commercial loads of garbage that contain designated materials such as paper and cardboard, scrap metal and recyclable wood will be subject to a higher rate at City landfills. To avoid higher rates please ensure these materials are separated and recycled.​​